Author: Isabel Kershner
\ Published on: 28/07/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
\ A growing number of Israelis are speaking out against what they describe as atrocities carried out in their name in the Palestinian enclave. In the early months of the war, the vast majority considered the offensive a just and necessary response to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. 60,000 Palestinians have since been killed in the war, according to Gaza health officials. The war has displaced most of the two million residents of Gaza several times. Many Israelis held Hamas solely responsible for the subsequent suffering in Gaza. Despite the desperate humanitarian crisis, a survey found 64.5 percent of the Israeli public was not at all concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. About three-quarters of Israeli Jews thought Israel’s military planning should not take into account the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, or should do so only minimally. Israeli government denies war crimes in Gaza, though the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant. One inflection point came about a year into the war, Dr. Mordechai said. The government did not officially adopt the plan, but critics said elements of it were quietly underway. Thousands of Israelis packed the main conference center in Jerusalem in May for a “People’s Peace Summit” organized by a coalition of more than 50 local peace and social justice organizations. It began with a minute’s silence for all the victims of the war — Palestinians and Israelis, civilians and soldiers. The best-selling Israeli authors David Grossman, Zeruya Shalev and Dorit Rabinyan were among scores of writers who signed another letter expressing “shock” over Israel’ Itamar Avneri, a Tel Aviv City Council member and a founder of Standing Together, said for that reason the group was careful to criticize the government, not the soldiers. “This is a war of destruction,” he said at the protest near the Gaza border, adding, “The Gazans are our neighbors” Tehran is at risk of running out of water. Ambassador to Israel demanded an investigation into the killing of Sayfollah Musallet in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The collapse of Iran’s regional influence represents an inflection point of a kind not seen in the Middle East for more than two decades.

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